Wonder what version of word?
Lawyers. It's always everyone else's fault.
: Would you let your staff drive your car without any driver training? Would
: you let them loose on tax law without any training? You cannot possibly
hope
: to get the best from a complex piece of software without learning how to
: drive it.
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: Graham Mayor - Word MVP
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: HAD IT UP TO HERE wrote:
: > I'm sure you are correct, we should learn how to use Word.
: >
: > Just for fun, try an experiment. Mention Word, numbering and complex
: > document to any grad student or working professional who gets paid
: > based on work product output.
: >
: > Will you get a smile, or a scowl?
: >
: > -Cheers
: >
: > "macropod" wrote:
: >
: >> Hi Don,
: >>
: >> Perhaps if you & your staff learned how to use Word correctly, you'd
: >> have fewer productivity issues - indeed you might find productivity
: >> increasing.
: >>
: >> Given your work situation, the proper implementation of
: >> appropriately-formatted templates for the various kinds of documents
: >> you need, plus training in how to use Styles, Autotext and Word's
: >> other productivity features, would be a great boon.
: >>
: >> --
: >> Cheers
: >> macropod
: >> [MVP - Microsoft Word]
: >>
: >>
: >> in message : >>> ..hmm
: >>> Thank you for the reply, but I think you might have been a little
: >>> sarcastic. The first thing Works displays is "Brochure" and "Party
: >>> Invitation" .
: >>>
: >>> "Business" means headers, footers, and citations. Words does have
: >>> a lot of features but it tries to be something to everyone. For a
: >>> multi-level heading serious document, it is too clumsy, even in the
: >>> 2008 iteration.
: >>>
: >>> We are going to make a serious effort to find some that "works", pun
: >>> intended, including WP.
: >>>
: >>> Thanks
: >>> Don Lowrey
: >>>
: >>> "Carey Frisch [MVP]" wrote:
: >>>
: >>>> Microsoft Works 9
: >>>>
http://www.microsoft.com/products/works/default.mspx
: >>>>
: >>>>
: >>>> "HAD IT UP TO HERE" <HAD IT UP TO (e-mail address removed)>
: >>>> wrote in message
: >>>> : >>>> MS Word is a Rube Goldberg machine.
: >>>>
: >>>> I write business documents. I don't write pretty party
: >>>> invitations or have pastel backgrounds in my docs. I can program
: >>>> in 2 languages plus VBA, and
: >>>> I'm a tax lawyer. Complex I know.
: >>>>
: >>>> Nevertheless, I spend half of my time in Word mucking with
: >>>> formatting
: >>>> instead of drafting. My employees are less skilled, and even after
: >>>> impelmenting the work arounds posted here; they waste more time
: >>>> formatting
: >>>> than in doing other document processing tasks.
: >>>>
: >>>> Word is costing me big bucks in lost productivity.
: >>>>
: >>>> And it's not just me. No one that I know is happy with Word.
: >>>> Does anyone know of another product that does numbering, doesn't
: >>>> try to make
: >>>> me design "pretty"; and lets "not so technical" employees get my
: >>>> work done?
: >>>>
: >>>> signed
: >>>> HAD IT UP TO HERE
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